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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What substance does the creature resemble microscopically?

2. How much of an advance did Sandler give to Flyte against future royalties?

3. How does the creature represent itself?

4. Where do the survivors go?

5. What is the chemical used for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the creature unable to use and how is that brought to the survivor's attention?

2. What does Flyte share with the six remaining survivors when he gets to Snowfield?

3. What does scientist Sara Yamaguchi report to Bryce and Jenny after their investigation?

4. What is so unusual about the conditions at the Sheffield home that Frank and Gordy ask Bryce to come and look?

5. Who does the creature promise to spare, and why?

6. What brainstorm does Sara have that she is afraid to voice out loud, but that the others sense hope in?

7. What happens after the helicopter drops the Biosan-4 and they spray the first representation that the A.E. sends them?

8. Why are Bryce and Jenny discouraged when Copperfield arrives?

9. What do Copperfield's men discover in the sewer system as they are running power cables?

10. What does science reveal about the victims and about the creature's use of them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the first of this group to be taken, and what seems to be the reason? In a search of the buildings leading to the Inn, what significant discoveries are made? How are they significant? What do these discoveries all have in common? What unexplainable phenomena is discovered during the search? Who is the second person taken and where is he taken from? What observation does Lisa make about this and how does this event change the way the group behaves?

Essay Topic 2

What is unusual about the town of Snowfield when Jennifer and Lisa arrive? How do both girls perceive the town differently at first? What are the first things that Jennifer notices as she is driving home versus the first impressions that Lisa has of her new home? Where does Jennifer discover her housekeeper, Hilda? How is this traumatic for Lisa and why is it significant to her? What memory overlaps her observations at first?

Essay Topic 3

What does Sara ask her base to send her? How does she explain the need for further items, and what is the Ancient Enemy's response to her request and her stall for more time? What is the purpose of the chemical that Sara has requested? What is it called and what was its original purpose? Why did it take so long to get the patent for this discovery and why is it unique? What door did this open for future scientific developments?

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